Amy Lorette Chase Bigler

November 7, 1822–June 8, 1907

1 Born at Lincoln, Addison County, Vermont; daughter of Amy Scott and Abner Chase. 2 Married Jacob G. Bigler, June 18, 1844; sealed in the temple at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, January 31, 1846; ten children. 3 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1852. 4 Settled at Nephi, Juab County, Utah Territory. 5 Appointed secretary of the Nephi Relief Society at its organization, 1868. 6 Appointed counselor to Mary Pitchforth in the Juab Stake Relief Society presidency, 1883. 7 Died at Nephi. 8 (See Document 3.19)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Department of Health, death certificates 1904–1961, series 81448, file no. 59a/246 (1907), Amy Lorette Bigler; Office of Vital Records and Statistics, Salt Lake City, UT.
  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 61/650. “Nephi. Death of Mrs. Bigler,” Deseret Evening News, June 9, 1907, 10.
  3. [3] “U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); citing Yates Publishing, Provo, UT. Franklin Keith Brough, Freely, I Gave: The Life of Jacob G. Bigler (Wichita, KS: Grit Printing Co., 1958), 23, 29.
  4. [4] “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels, accessed Apr. 2014), Amy Lorette Chase Bigler.
  5. [5] Brough, Freely, I Gave, 154–155.
  6. [6] Ibid. , 154.
  7. [7] “R.S., Y.L.M.I.A. and Primary Reports,” Woman’s Exponent 12, no. 12 (Nov. 15, 1883): 94.
  8. [8] Utah death certificate, file no. 61/650. FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 29, 2015), Amy L. Bigler), K2WS-D17 .